On the Verge...

Not really, but I am working on it. My personalized layout is in the works and it may take a few days. So until then I will probably keep changing up my template design as a place holder. This is the image that I am working on for the background... Needs work. We'll see how long it takes. I am having my fantastic "Mother's Helper"/Former Student/Little Sister Chelsea come to hang out with Abram today. Last week she helped with the Bubba and also dusted the whole front of the house and cleaned the stove. I was able to clean the kitchen and vacuum the whole house! It was a muy productive day. Today I am thinking that I will pack for our trip to my grandfather's wedding in Tyler, Texas, do some laundry, and possibly work on my layout (if I am lucky). I really should clean the bathrooms, but... ugh... it's not sounding good right now. I haven't really taken many pictures of Abram lately, so I will also try to get some while Chelsea is here. So many g...

Today I have learned a lot. I am reminded of my Myspace days, when I learned to copy and paste code. Not write code. Copy and paste code. I'm sure my husband could help me with this, but first of all he doesn't really have the time, second of all he's a perfectionist so he really doesn't have the time, and third of all, I kind of want to learn to do it myself. So I am not sold yet. Actually, this will NOT be the look of my blog. I am just playing a learning. But I have played and learned all day and the dishes are piled up in the sink, the baby is awake and talking in his crib (and has been for about 20 minutes now), and we are about to go visit our friend. So I have to stop mid-change. I thought about just reverting to what I had before while I work on it, but this way you can really see that I am on the verge of a new layout, but not there yet. So I chose this orange "retro" layout in honor of my orange (retro?) baby. Who is hungry. Wish me layout ...

Abram has been eating solids for about 6 weeks now (wow, it seems like a lot longer), but he is still not a great eater. Sometimes he doesn't want to eat baby food at all. He'll take two bites and we won't be able to trick him into any more. I don't know if this is because he doesn't like the taste or because he is just not hungry. Because sometimes he eats almost a full stage 2 jar of food. Today, for instance, he ate about 6 bites of prunes and rice cereal for breakfast and about 2 bites of mixed vegetables at lunch. He usually doesn't eat well when I try to give him peas or green beans or anything with a substantial amount of peas or green beans in it. But he will always eat squash, carrots, and sweet potatoes. I knew that I should be getting him to eat a wider variety of foods, but this wasn't a very big worry for me until my sister commented on the fact that Abram's nose looked orange. At first I thought that I had fed him and not wiped his n...

As if I weren't following enough blogs already, Pinterest has made it so much easier to find awesome crafting blogs. And you know as well as I do that once you get on one blog, you will start rabbit trailing to 50 others that have just as amazing of ideas as the first! So you add them to your google reader and, before you know it, when you sit down to "just check your email", it turns into a 2 hour "which project should I choose to do next" time sucking dilemma! I should only check Pinterest and google reader every few days for that reason. Oh! And if you decide that you would like and invite to Pinterest, let me know and I'll send one your way. I just need your email address. This morning, Abram has blessed me with an hour and a half of nap time so far. I should have taken a shower... and I was about to do so when I thought I would "just browse Pinterest for a second". Yeah... Then I found two more awesome blogs with amazing ideas and I ...

If you've been following us for the past few months, you may remember this blog I posted about the baby products I had found the most essential for our newborn. Well, obviously he has grown and things have changed. Not that those things weren't the essentials for that time. They were. And I would still endorse them. But we are in a whole new realm of infancy now, and have a whole new list of essentials. Part 1: Feeding Medela Slow Flow Bottles: I previously endorsed the Playtex Drop ins Nurser bottles. And they were the best for Abram up until about 6 months. Then, all of a sudden, after making it all the way up to the fast flow nipples, he started freaking out while he was taking his bottle. We actually had friends babysit him and they said that it seemed like it was torturing him. I'm not sure what happened. We think that the flow was just too slow for him. He has gotten extremely efficient at nursing and only takes about 15 minutes total. So the next night...

"Yea!!!" Our close friends, Danny and Abby McReynolds, are expecting a baby in the middle of July. I was kinda hoping that their baby would be closer to Abram (I think that Danny and Abby were hoping, too...), but God's timing is perfect, and little McBaby will come exactly when he or she is supposed to! And, besides, 8 months is not that much in the scheme of things. We went to their shower this weekend. It was a co-ed shower, so Quinn and Abram got to come, too :) Here are Danny and Abby: Danny Abby I should have gotten a picture of them together, but alas, I wasn't thinking. Abram did surprisingly well and didn't fuss at all! Considering he was long overdue for a nap and Abby's brother, Nathan, was playing with him in the backyard a lot of the time, that was amazing. He really is getting to be much more fun and easy going... knock on wood. He was also entertaining himself by ch...

"Well, hello there!" It's so crazy that Abram is starting to become a real little boy. He is doing more and more things on his own, like sitting up, grabbing at everything, rolling over both ways, and taking better naps (although right now we are having a battle of the wills nap time). And as he gets older, he is looking more and more like what he will look like for good. Quinn and I have a hard time identifying who he looks more like. We can see that he looks like me when I was a baby: but aren't sure how much he looks like either one of us now . He has been sleeping better at night, but we've had a few issues. We think it's growth spurt related and are expecting him to grow out of all his clothes any day now! We have just had to concede to his desire to sleep on his tummy and we pray every night for his protection. He likes to sleep with his little butt up in the air. It doesn't really look comfortable, but it's pretty darn cute. Eating is ...